"Over the last 10 years, an international team of 442 scientists have assailed 147 different types of cells with 24 types of experiments. Their goal: catalogue every letter (nucleotide) within the genome that does something. The results are published today in 30 papers across three different journals, and more." // "The NHGRI-funded project, dubbed ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements), linked more than 80 percent of the human genome sequence to a specific biological function and mapped more than 4 million regulatory regions where proteins specifically interact with the DNA. Among other things, these findings refute past research suggesting that most of our genetic code is essentially useless. NHGRI program director, Elise Feingold, likened the ENCODE catalog to “Google Maps for the human genome.” Researchers can use the ENCODE maps to navigate through the chromosomes, genes, functional elements and individual nucleotides in the human genome just as Google Maps users can adjust settings such as magnification to view countries, states, cities, street names and even individual buildings. In the coming years, ENCODE plans to increase the depth of the catalog and develop new tools for more sophisticated analyses of the data." https://plus.google.com/u... - Amira

The data can be accessed through the ENCODE project portal: http://www.encodeproject.org/ENCODE... You can read more about the project here: http://www.genome.gov/27549810. See also: ENCODE: the rough guide to the human genome http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrock... - Amira

Hey, there's my house...er...protein! - Todd Hoff

wow! See also: Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life -- complete picture of girl over 50,000 years old "In a stunning technical feat, an international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an archaic Siberian girl 31 times over, using a new method that amplifies single strands of DNA. The sequencing is so complete that researchers have as sharp a picture of this ancient genome as they would of a living person's, revealing, for example that the girl had brown eyes, hair, and skin. (...) Everyone was shocked by the counts. That includes me." http://news.sciencemag.org/science... - Amira